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Feb 10, 2014

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Senior Program Manager Interview

Anonymous Employee

Accepted Offer

Positive Experience

Average Interview

Application

I applied online. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Yahoo.

Interview

"Standard" program management questions and situations were given during the interview. Some examples include:

- How do you track progress?- How do you know when you are "done"?- What's the toughest issue you had to deal with?- What did you do about it?- If the project you are initially assigned is in trouble how do you get it back on track?

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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 7+ months. I interviewed at Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA) in August 2012.

Interview

It took a long 7 months because CEO must review and approve every hire at every level. It must up/down multiple times via Yahoo Talent Acquisition folks, the department, then CEO. If the position is not at a high management level, the final CEO approval can get postponed many times. Also, there is a voting process with a minimum of 5 interviewers required. They must write feedback and rank you, totaling a high enough score that an offer will come. CEO approves your offer before you are told what it will be, making countering impractical, as it further delays the entire process. Talent Acquisition quickly sets up the interviews, but then everything drags after that.

Interview Questions

How would you manage competing resource demands from different managers? 1 Answer

Senior Program Manager Interview

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA) in November 2011.

Interview

The interview setup process was nice, interviewers were late though, also the recruiter was not very responsive once the decision of the offer was made. Two of the interviewers showed up as a panel even though they were listed to interview individually which left a full hour of me doing nothing- a bit awkward..

Senior Program Manager Interview

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo (Sunnyvale, CA) in August 2011.

Interview

Recruiters are not as prompt as I'd expect. Interviewers are genuinely nice. Interviews are more of a conversation rather than an interrogation. Had 4 people interview for about 45 mins each. Questions about Agile methodology, tools, cross-functional challenges, significant achievements, influencing without authority etc. There were opportunities to ask questions about the role, team, products and future plans. It was good to be talking to senior folks with whom I'd be working if selected - that gives a mutual feeling of fit.

Senior Program Manager Interview

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6+ weeks. I interviewed at Yahoo (Santa Monica, CA) in July 2011.

Interview

Interviewed with 6 different people and 3 rounds. First round with with Sr. Director of Program Management over the phone. Second round was an on site interview with 4 different people. The last round was a phone interview with VP of engineer.

Senior Program Manager Interview

Anonymous Interview Candidate in London, England (UK)

No Offer

Negative Experience

Average Interview

Application

I applied online. I interviewed at Yahoo (London, England (UK)) in September 2013.

Interview

Just got an email from an HR representative to schedule a phone interview. The phone call took 40 mins and I was asked general questions about my current role and experience, as well as math and questions related to the advertising industry. Some of the questions are a bit naive...

Senior Program Manager Interview

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Yahoo (Bengaluru (India)) in August 2011.

Interview

Was asked to come on a particular day after an initial phone screening. The interviews were more of meeting people where the conversation was freewheeling with a strong focus on responsibilities held previously

Please take everything in writing from this company. They confirmed orally about a Senior Program Manager but rolled out an offer as Program Manager! The HR and Management teams all denied responsibility for this. When I say management, this is right up to the head of Bangalore office.

Senior Program Manager Interview

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Yahoo (Bengaluru (India)) in March 2010.

Interview

Started with a Phone Interview with a panel of 2 people from Yahoo, One a Program Manager and the other being an HR representative. This was for a duration of 1 hour. Consisted of normal questions as to:- Current profile- Which teams/all co-located or geo-separated- SCRUM based development, this was one of the biggest topic discussed

Following this, i was call for a face to face interview at the Bangalore office. Yahoo provided for the air-fare and actually provided me the tickets as well. However there was no offer for the transport cost within the city from Home to Airport / Airport to Yahoo and vice versa.

Surprisingly, although the interview was scheduled nearly 15 days ago, people from the panel were missing or not in office. I was made to wait for an hour before the process started with an adhoc panel and with a couple of people taking the interview over the phone while i was in the Yahoo office.

Again the interview mainly consisted of discussions on the projects i have worked one and again the biggest factor was the SCRUM based development methodology.

Post this, i had phone interviews with Director Program Management, based in US, and then again with a Sr. Dir. Program Management. These two interviews happened a couple of weeks after Yahoo office interviews.

I was informed approx. 1 week post the last phone interview that the deal would not work out.

Overall an OK experience, but the time taken was not expected since this was detailed out to be an urgent requirement.